6340912450 | Babbitt | a self-satisfied person concern chiefly with business and middle-class ideals like material success; a member of the American working class whose unthinking attachment to its business and social ideals is such to make him a model of narrow-mindedness and self-satisfaction; after George F. Babbitt, the main character in the novel _________ by Sinclair Lewis. | 0 | |
6340936357 | Brobdingnagian | gigantic, enormous, on a large scale, enlarged; after _____________, the land of giants visited by Gulliver in Gulliver's Travels, by Johnathan Swift. | 1 | |
6340972265 | Bumble | to speak or behave clumsily or faltering, to make a humming or droning sound; Middle English bomblem; a clumsy religious figure (a beadle) in a work of literature. | 2 | |
6340986082 | Cinderella | one who gains affluence or recognition after obscurity and neglect, a person or thing whose beauty or worth remains unrecognized; after the fairytale heroine who escapes form a life a drudgery through the intervention of a fairy godmother and marries a handsome prince. | 3 | |
6341008970 | Don Juan | a libertine, profligate, a man obsessed with seducing women; after ________, the legendary 14th century Spanish nobleman and libertine. | 4 | |
6341016781 | Don Quixote | someone overly idealistic to the point of having impossible dreams; from the crazed and impoverished Spanish noble who sets out to revive the impoverished Spanish noble who sets out to revive the glory of knighthood, romanticized in the musical The Man of La Mancha based on the story by Cervantes. | 5 | |
6341033375 | Panglossian | blindly or misleadingly optimistic; after Dr. __________ in Candide by Voltaire, a pedantic old tutor. | 6 | |
6341047402 | Falstaffian | full of wit and bawdy humor; after ________, a fat, sensual, boastful, and mendacious knight who was the companion of Henry, Prince of Wales. | 7 | |
6341055361 | Frankenstein | Anything that threatens or destroys its creator; from the young scientist in Mary Shelley's novel of this name, who creates a monster that eventually destroys him. | 8 | |
6341064671 | Friday | A faithful and willing attendant, ready to turn his hand to anything, and kept as his servant and companion on the desert island. | 9 | |
6341069571 | Galahad | A pure and noble man with limited ambition; in the legends of King Arthur, the purest and most virtuous knight of the Round Table, the only knight to find the Holy Grail | 10 | |
6341077578 | Jekyll and Hyde | A capricious person with two sides to his/her personality; from a character in the famous novel Dr. _______________________ who had more than one personality, a split personality (one good and one evil). | 11 | |
6341086902 | Lilliputian | descriptive of a very small person or of something diminutive, trivial or petty; after the Lilliputians, tiny people in Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift. | 12 | |
6383070066 | Little Lord Fauntleroy | refers either to a certain type of children's clothing or to a beautiful, but pampered and effeminate small boy; from a work by Frances H. Burnett, the main character, seven-year-old Cedric Errol, was a striking figure, dressed in black velvet with a lace collar and yellow curls | 13 | |
6383119738 | Lothario | used to describe a man whose chief interest is seducing a woman; from the play The Fair Penitent by Nicholas Rowe, the main character and the seducer | 14 | |
6383132590 | Malapropism | The usually unintentional humorous misuse or distortion of a word or phrase, especially the used of a word sounding somewhat like the one intended, but ludicrously wrong in context - Example: polo bears. Mrs. ____________ was a character noted for her misuse of words in R.B. Sheridan's comedy The Rivals | 15 | |
6383164816 | Milquetoast | a timid, weak, or unassertive person; from Casper __________, who was a comic strip character created by H.T. Webster | 16 | |
6383209152 | Pickwickian | humorous, sometimes derogatory; from Samuel Pickwick, a character in Charles Dickens' ___________ Papers | 17 | |
6383233322 | Pollyanna | a person characterized by impermissible optimism and a tendency to find good in everything, a foolishly or blindly optimistic person; from Eleanor Porter's heroine, __________ Whittier, in the book ______________ | 18 | |
6383266682 | Pooh-bah | a pompous, ostentatious official, expecially one who, holding many offices, fulfills none of them, a person who holds high office; after _______ Lord-High-Everything-Else, character in The Mikado, a musical by Gilbert and Sullivan | 19 | |
6383315823 | Quixotic | having foolish and impractical ideas of honor, or schemes for the general good; after Don Quixotic, a half-crazy reformer and knight of the supposed distressed, in a novel by the same name | 20 | |
6383330585 | Robot | a machine that looks like a human being and performs various acts of a human being, a similar but functional machine whose lack of capacity for human emotions is often emphasized by a efficient, insensitive person who functions automatically, a mechanism guided by controls from Karel Capek's Rossum's Universal Robots (1920), taken from the Czech "robota" meaning drudgery | 21 | |
6383355627 | Rodomontade | bluster and boasting, to boast; from ____________, a brave but braggart knight in Bojardo's Orlando Inamorato; King of Sarza or Algiers, son of Ulteus, and commander of both horse and foot in the Saracen Army | 22 | |
6383397448 | Scrooge | a bitter and/or greedy person; from Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, and elderly stingy miser who is given a reality check by 3 visiting ghosts | 23 | |
6383414605 | Simon Legree | a harsh, cruel, or demanding person in authority, such as an employer or officer that acts in this manner; from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Ward, the brutal slave overseer | 24 | |
6383428366 | Svengali | a person with an irresistible hypnotic power; from a person in a novel written in 1894 by George Mauriers; a musician who hypnotizes and gains control over the heroine | 25 | |
6450872765 | Tartuffle | hypocrite or someone who is hypocritical; central character in a comedy by Moliere produced in 1667; Moliere was a famous for his hypocritical piety | 26 | |
6450872766 | Uncle Tom | someone thought to have the t | 27 |
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